Thilak Rao

This article is a must read for anyone who is trying to gain fitness through vegan diet. My personal goal for 2012 is to quit smoking and cut down on alcohol, and hit the gym to tone my muscles, but the only thing which keeps me from doing this is my hectic work schedule.

Before you get a wrong idea, let me just clarify that I love my job, seriously I do, but sometimes I need some alone time to gain new skills and learn something new.

I’m almost on the verge of dropping out from the Udacity CS253 course, and from May 28th onwards Coursera’s Human Computer Interaction Classes are starting off!

Excellent write-up by Leo Babauta!

Excerpt: “I’m a lifelong learner and am always obsessively studying something, whether that’s breadmaking or language or wine or chess or writing or fitness.

Here’s are two key lessons — both really the same lesson — I’ve learned about learning, in all my years of study and in trying to teach people:

1. Almost everything I’ve learned, I didn’t learn in school; and
2. Almost everything my students (and kids) have learned, they learned on their own.

Those two lessons (or one lesson) have a number of reasons and implications for learning. Let’s take a look at some of them, in hopes you might find them useful.”

I used to always wonder why girls from separated family are so damaged, and so constantly crave for love. This white paper by Jacqueline J. Kirby and Katherine Dean helps explain, why such girls behave the way they behave.

Excerpt: Many studies have reported that children of divorced parents experience more problems in adjustment than children who grow up in intact families. Much of the research suggests that children of divorce are more likely to have more difficulties in school and to be more sexually active, more aggressive, more anxious, more withdrawn, less prosocial, more depressed, and more likely to abuse substances and participate in delinquent acts than their peers from intact families.

More at http://ohioline.osu.edu/flm02/FS11.html